Can Rick Perry Claim Credit For Texas' Job Growth?http://www.businessinsider.com/rick-perrys-texas-miracle-its-complicated-2011-8/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Sun, 02 Aug 2015 16:43:10 -0400Jon Terbushhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e4c3961ecad045041000037KevinWed, 17 Aug 2011 17:57:53 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e4c3961ecad045041000037
Are we to assume that federal stimulus didn't effect the other states who didn't have half of the jobs created? Are we also to assume that high energy prices only gave Texas the ability to create half of the jobs in the United States. Wishful thinking...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e4c2f026bb3f7fe35000005shall7070Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:13:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e4c2f026bb3f7fe35000005
If Obama can claim credit for saving the economy, hell, I guess I can claim credit for Texas' job growthhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e4c217becad04e265000044BTKWed, 17 Aug 2011 16:15:55 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e4c217becad04e265000044
You make the exact same arguments that are ruthlessly demolished with statistical evidence in the article you link to?
For instance, lets take your energy bullet point. No statistics at all in your argument, much as there is never any economic evidence for any liberal's arguments. The reason you left them out? Because it shows that energy related growth (even growth which only very generously can be characterized as such), accounts for only 25% of Texas' growth, and even stripping that out, the state still utterly destroys the rest of the country in job creation.
Further, if domestic energy production is such a terrific driver of economic growth and job creation (which I agree, it is) why can't we end the domestic drilling moratorium, open up ANWAR, and allow fracking for natural gas in NY and other areas it is currently hamstrung by liberal regulations? In fact, that his pro-energy policies led to 25% of Texas' economic growth is a pure counter-factual to your claim that he can take no credit for job creation.
Oh, you also added the stimulus. Purely laughable. Texas has a State GDP of $1.25 trillion, a stimulus of $17b, or 1.3%, certainly is not the main force driving its job creation. The stimulus of $814b was 5.6% of national GDP ($14.3t), meaning Texas actually got only 23% (1.3/5.6) of the stimulus that a typical state got. Leaving aside the fact that this is evidence that the stimulus was unethically and uneconomically allocated more to democratic leaning states, it also begs the question, if the stimulus helped Texas so much, why when applied at a 5x greater volume did it do nothing for the rest of the country?
There are no arguments here. Even if you take your contorted logic all the way out to the extreme and say that the Texas legislature/state gov apparatus is responsible for the policies that led to this growth, rather than the Governor, Perry did nothing to stop those policies from being enacted. Which in itself would be a considerable step up from Obama/DNC Senate killing any pro-growth policies proposed, such as the Ryan Plan, FTAs, Boeing bill, etc.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e4c209c69beddbd1d00000fbilderbergerWed, 17 Aug 2011 16:12:12 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e4c209c69beddbd1d00000f
never trust a bilderberger , if interested google the bilderberger membership lists, a fine group of pirates one and all.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e4c2078eab8eaf845000034rip thisWed, 17 Aug 2011 16:11:36 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e4c2078eab8eaf845000034
you mean lining his and his corporate benefactors pockets at the expense of the citizens of Texas.....what a joke.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e4c1f4f6bb3f79c08000003bilderbergerWed, 17 Aug 2011 16:06:39 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e4c1f4f6bb3f79c08000003
texas is doing ok because of oil, bilderberger perry is just riding the petro wave.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e4c1e6aeab8eadf51000037keithvWed, 17 Aug 2011 16:02:50 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e4c1e6aeab8eadf51000037
I live in Texas, and the economy has been strong for decades. I, like many of my friends and neighbors, support Rick Perry.
We don't support him because he improves things; we support him because we trust him not to screw up a good thing.
Everything that's going good in Texas is because of Perry's beautiful ability to act like he's accomplishing something, when he's really just doing his hair while the ship sails its course.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e4c17ec6bb3f7b070000005black swanWed, 17 Aug 2011 15:35:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e4c17ec6bb3f7b070000005
It's kind of a good news/bad news thing. The bad news is that thanks to Rick Perry's open boarder policy, there are 825,000 illegal immigrants now living in Texas. The good news is that they all have jobs. The bad news is that the pay for jobs in Texas is dropping. The good news is that, if Perry becomes the next President, Texas can will have a new Governor. The bad news is that, if Pres.Perry gets his NAFTA Super Highway through, there will be thousands and thousands of Mexican truckers on our roads.